Modern Quotes

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The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers the choices among… — Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of… — Ellen Swallow Richards
It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by the readiness with… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of people; a doctrine gradually elaborated… — Ralph Raico
As liberals, men like Richter viewed socialism as the great modern counter-revolution, and believed that the achievement of the socialist goal would lead both to… — Ralph Raico
I find that because of modern technological evolution and our global economy, and as a result of the great increase in population, our world has… — Dalai Lama
The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy. — Akbar Ganji
Global warming - at least the modern nightmare vision - is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a growing number of… — David Bellamy
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief — Jacques Ellul
Man, some modern philosophers tell us, is alienated from his world: he is a stranger and afraid in a world he never made. Perhaps he… — Karl Popper
Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces… — James A. Garfield
Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers. — Alfred W. Crosby
We applied a very simple principle: Recognize the facts. Abortion is old as the world. Gay marriage, please - it's older than the world. We… — Jose Mujica
Paul Ryan, who teamed up with Akin in the House to sponsor harsh anti-abortion bills, may look young and hip and new generation, with his… — Maureen Dowd
In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception. — Nouriel Roubini
It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was thus that it… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization. A class… — Jacques Ellul
No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not involve some control… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms of the genesis of the… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic sense of uplifting,… — Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite… — Immanuel Wallerstein
I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run… — Henry Ford
Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said that religion was… — Immanuel Wallerstein
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth… — Mary McCarthy
The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization. — Pope Pius IX

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